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Large employers team up to negotiate best prices from hospitals and doctors
Joining together to take health care costs into their own hands, more than a dozen large employers in Wisconsin succeeded in reducing their expenses by taking bids directly from doctors and hospitals and excluding the most expensive providers. The group, the Business Health Care Group, now has almost 1,000 employer members.  Courier-Journal (Louisville, Ky.), The (7/30)